Yuru: A term or sound implying laziness or an easygoing manner. Yuri: Girls love, romance or sexuality between women. So, Yuru Yuri is easygoing girlish romance. It's a slice of life show about a relatively small (a main cast of 8) group of middle school girls who form an awkward web of romantic entanglements, many of which are obvious and many of which are vehemently denied by those involved in them. Nearly all of them are one-sided or are in that odd stage where neither one has recognized the relationship as being affection yet.
It's difficult to describe what makes me enjoy it as a series so much. One thing is the relative awareness of the girls of each others' feelings: with only a handful of exceptions, all the girls are pretty much aware of the various crushes that are going on, even the ones who are the targets of those crushes. Another is the series' mix of schadenfreude (a staple of any comedy) with sweetness, as much as the series is mean to its characters, we have long moments of getting to see them being nice to each other, we get to see why they're friends in the first place.
If you're into girls being awkward and silly and also sometimes just being children, Yuru Yuri will give you plenty to laugh at. If you need men in your stories to enjoy them, or if you expect fan service or resolution to extended romantic silliness, move on.
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Someone's missing from the group picture and it's not Akarin.
She's actually there the picture just got cut off due to window size. If you look at the blog view you can see her.
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